This site exists as a record of learning, not as a guide to doing things “the right way”.
I roast coffee at home, mostly on a single roaster, the Gene Café CBR-301 and I write things down so I can notice what changes over time: what mattered early on, what stopped mattering, and what quietly replaced it. Some of that learning is technical. A lot of it isn’t.
I’m not trying to teach coffee roasting in the traditional sense. I’m documenting how understanding forms through repetition, mistakes, restraint, and occasionally doing less rather than more.
How this site is organised
The site is deliberately simple:
- Notes are dated, experience-led entries.
They capture what happened during a roast, what I noticed, and what I’m unsure about. They often include data, but they’re not written to prove anything. - Guide pages exist only when patterns repeat often enough to feel stable.
They’re calm, distilled, and intentionally non-prescriptive. - Occasionally there may be simple reference recipes for people who just want to roast and drink coffee without thinking too hard. These are convenience shortcuts, not rules.
What this site is not
This is not:
- a list of optimal roast profiles
- a claim of expertise
- a performance of certainty
If you’re looking for definitive answers, there are much better places. If you’re interested in how confidence slowly replaces rules, you may find something useful here.
A final note
Most of what’s written here is provisional. Some of it will change. Some of it will quietly stop being interesting.
That’s part of the point.